Friday the 13th is the thirteenth day in a month that falls on Friday, which superstition holds that it is a day of good or bad luck. In the Gregorian calendar, this day occurs at least once a year.
The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia, a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (Παρασκευή) (meaning Friday), and dekatreís (δεκατρείς) (meaning thirteen), attached to phobía (φοβία) (meaning fear). This is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a simple phobia (fear) of the number thirteen, and is also known as friggatriskaidekaphobia. The term triskaidekaphobia was derived in 1911 and first appeared in a mainstream source in 1953.
According to folklorists, there is no written evidence for a "Friday the 13th" superstition before the 19th century.The earliest known documented reference in English occurs in an 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini:
[Rossini] was surrounded to the last by admiring and affectionate friends; and if it be true that, like so many other Italians, he regarded Friday as an unlucky day, and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that on Friday, the 13th of November, he died.
However, some folklore is passed on through oral traditions. In addition, "determining the origins of superstitions is an inexact science, at best. In fact, it's mostly guesswork."Consequently, several theories have been proposed about the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition.
One theory states that it is a modern amalgamation of two older superstitions: that thirteen is an unlucky number and that Friday is an unlucky day.
* In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve signs of the zodiac, twelve hours of the clock, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles of Jesus, twelve gods of Olympus, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness. There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper or a Norse myth, that having thirteen people seated at a table will result in the death of one of the diners.
* Friday has been considered an unlucky day at least since the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales, and many other professions have regarded Friday as an unlucky day to undertake journeys or begin new projects. Black Friday has been associated with stock market crashes and other disasters since the 1800s. It has also been suggested that Friday has been considered an unlucky day because, according to Christian scripture and tradition, Jesus was crucified on a Friday.
On the other hand, another theory by author Charles Panati, one of the leading authorities on the subject of "Origins" maintains that the superstition can be traced back to ancient myth:
The actual origin of the superstition, though, appears also to be a tale in Norse mythology. Friday is named for Frigga, the free-spirited goddess of love and fertility. When Norse and Germanic tribes converted to Christianity, Frigga was banished in shame to a mountaintop and labeled a witch. It was believed that every Friday, the spiteful goddess convened a meeting with eleven other witches, plus the devil - a gathering of thirteen - and plotted ill turns of fate for the coming week. For many centuries in Scandinavia, Friday was known as "Witches' Sabbath."
Another theory about the origin of the superstition traces the event to the arrest of the legendary Knights Templar. According to one expert:
The Knights Templar were a monastic military order founded in Jerusalem in 1118 C.E., whose mission was to protect Christian pilgrims during the Crusades. Over the next two centuries, the Knights Templar became extraordinarily powerful and wealthy. Threatened by that power and eager to acquire their wealth, King Philip secretly ordered the mass arrest of all the Knights Templar in France on Friday, October 13, 1307 - Friday the 13th.
The connection between the superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in the 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code, however, some experts think that it is relatively recent and is a modern-day invention. For example, the superstition is rarely found before the 20th century, when it became extremely common. One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth,in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.
This year a remake of the original Friday The 13th was released on Friday February 13th, 2009.
Friday the 13th is a 2009 American horror film directed by Marcus Nispel, and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. It is a reboot of the Friday the 13th film series,which began in 1980 and whose last film was the 2003 crossover film Freddy vs. Jason. Nispel also helmed the 2003 remake of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), while Shannon and Swift wrote the screenplay for Freddy vs. Jason. The film stars Derek Mears as Jason Voorhees, with Jared Padalecki, Amanda Righetti and Danielle Panabaker portraying the male and female leads. The film follows Clay Miller (Padalecki) as he searches for his missing sister, Whitney (Righetti), who was taken by Jason while she was camping in the woods at Crystal (Skull/Meth) Lake.
[Jason in 2002/X marks the spot of transmutation]
In 2008, Jason Voorhees is captured by the U.S. government. Rowan (Lexa Doig), a government researcher, leads several unsuccessful attempts to execute him. In 2010, she decides to place him in cryogenic suspension to neutralize him. Unfortunately, the government has other plans, hoping to profit from research into Jason's rapid cellular regeneration. Jason escapes while being moved and kills seven soldiers. Rowan manages to lure him into the cryonic chamber and activates it. However, Jason manages to stab her through the door, both wounding her and freezing them both inside the sealed room.
In the year 2455, Earth has become too polluted to support life and humanity has moved to a new planet, Earth Two. Five students on a field trip led by Professor Lowe (Jonathan Potts) enter the facility and find Jason and Rowan. They take them back to their spacecraft and reanimate Rowan. Jason is deemed deceased and left in the morgue. During a call to his financial backer, Professor Lowe explains that he had hoped to exploit Rowan's status as the oldest person revived from cryostatis for profit, as he is in serious debt. The man dismisses this, but notes that Voorhees' body could be worth a substantial amount to a collector.
In 2009 NBC (Peacock/Phoenix) has released two made for TV movies, The Last Templar and XIII. The Last Templar aired a week before the Superbowl on Jan 25-26 while XIII was released a week After on February 8th and 15th, which made The movie XIII in progress during Friday the 13th. The Superbowl also had the Pirate/Templar theme going on as well and now with the number 13 we have another Templar number as seen above.
[Crosshair/Zodiac/GC/13/Ophiuchus/Jesus/Serpent]
XIII (Thirteen) is a Franco-Belgian comics series written and drawn by Belgians Jean Van Hamme and William Vance, revolving around an amnesiac protagonist who seeks to discover his concealed past. With its plot inspired by Robert Ludlum's book The Bourne Identity, XIII was initially serialised in 1984 in Spirou, and was later published by Dargaud. In 2003, the storyline of the first five volumes was adapted into a video game, also titled XIII, that was released on several platforms. A XIII TV miniseries starring Val Kilmer and Stephen Dorff was released in 2008.
The XX was most likely formed by Number I with help from various other people as a patriotic militia. Sometime after its creation, they began to recruit other like-minded and politically powerful individuals and with the help of William Standwell, took control of SPADs (Special Assault Destroying Section) turning them into mercenaries under the employ of the Mongoose. After several years of careful planning, they decided to strike against the Government.
The first female U.S. President, Sally Sheridan, is shot dead by a sniper during her Veterans Day speech. Her assassin narrowly escapes the scene with his life.
[Crosshair/Zodiac again on 3rd Eye/Pineal gland]
Three months later, an elderly couple discover the body of a wounded man in a tree, still in his parachute. The young man (Dorff) cannot remember the slightest thing about his own identity. The only clue is a tattoo on his chest, "XIII".
[HH/88/I Light/Lucifer]
Meanwhile, in the White House, government intelligence is still conducting the search for the President's killer. With the elections just weeks away, a confirmed suspect could swing the vote for the administration. Hours after XIII's location is picked up by covert intelligence, elite special ops forces are swarming the couple's house in Cape Fear. Running on adrenaline and instinct, XIII tactically takes out the soldiers one by one. On the run, clinging to one desperate clue after another, XIII begins to piece back his life, fragments of his memory returning.
Finally captured, he learns that he has been given a stolen identity and placed undercover to flush out a group of conspirators threatening to overthrow the government. Ensconced within the highest echelons of power the conspirators run their own security agency alongside the Government's. Both are out to find him. The only way for XIII to get his own life back is to play bait which is a dangerous game since XIII doesn't know who he really is.
* Walter Sheridan - The leader of The XX ("Number I").
* Calvin Wax - The Secretary of Defense ("Number II")
* General William Standwell - Chief of Staff ("Number III")
* Philip Gillepsie - Secretary of State of the Interior ("Number IV")
* Senator Clayton Willard - Senator ("Number V")
* Judge Irving Allenby - Judge in the Sheridan Affair ("Number VI")
* Captain Franklin Edelbright - Admiral of the USS Patriot ("Number VII")
* Dean Harrison - Congressman ("Number VIII")
* Jasper Winslow - Chief executive officer in Winslow Bank ("Number IX")
* Orville Midsummer - Proprietor of unamed Press Groups ("Number X")
* Colonel Seymour MacCall - Colonel in SPADs ("Number XI")
* Lloyd Jennings - Advisor to the White House ("Number XII")
* Steve Rowland - Captain in SPADs ("Number XIII")
* Harriet Traymore - Chief executive officer in the Federal Steel Corporation ("Number XIV")
* Jack Dickinson - Chief executive officer in the American Legion ("Number XV")
* Colonel Norman Ryder - Colonel in the United States National Guard ("Number XVI")
* Kim Rowland - Wife of Steve Rowland ("Number XVII")
* Edwin Rauschenburg - Chief executive officer of CBN ("Number XVIII")
* Elly Shepherd - Director General in the United States Department of Defense ("Number XIX")
* Doctor Edward W Johansson - Director of Plain Rock Asylum ("Number XX")
The Mongoose
An infamous hitman hired by The XX to carry out assassinations and other evil deeds. The Mongoose is a cruel and cold-blooded murderer who carries out his orders with eagerness and glee. He commands an army of hitmen to do some of his dirty work.
Stephen Dorf Filmography
The (Star) Gate is a 1987 horror movie starring Stephen Dorff and directed by Tibor Takács.
The removal of an old tree in Glen (Stephen Dorff)'s backyard reveals a large and mysterious hole. Glen and his sister, Al, are left to look after themselves for three days when their parents go away. This is when strange things begin to happen, all of them centered around the "hole".
Blade is a 1998 vampire action film starring Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff, loosely based on the published stories of the fictional Marvel Comics character Blade. It was directed by Stephen Norrington and written by David S. Goyer. Snipes plays the titular character, a half-man, half-vampire superhero vampire hunter who becomes the protector of humans against the vampires.
[Stargate]
Entropy is a movie directed by Phil Joanou, starring Stephen Dorff and featuring the Irish rock band U2. The film is largely autobiographical, covering his early film career, his relationships (including a very short-lived marriage) and his pet cat.
[Steal/Steel/Pirate/Templar]
Steal (aka Riders) is a 2002 action adventure film starring Stephen Dorff, Natasha Henstridge, Bruce Payne and Steven Berkoff. It was directed by Gérard Pirès and written by Mark Ezra and Gérard Pirès.
Slim, Frank, Otis and Alex are a group of youthful bank robbers who commit their crimes in innovative ways involving extreme sports such as Skateboarding. The group evade capture from the Police, lead by Lieutenant Macgruder, and plan even more daring robberies. But an anonymous individual seems to know who they all are and threatens to inform the Police unless they undertake a robbery for him. Subsequently, the Mafia represented by underworld enforcer Surtayne instruct the group to work for them otherwise they will be killed. The group soon turn the tables on the anonymous individual (who is revealed to be Lieutenant Macgruder) and the Mafia and escape with all of the money from their last heist.
[WWW]
FeardotCom is a 2002 horror film directed by William Malone.
Four people died mysteriously in New York City and the only connection is the fact that all of them died within 48 hours of logging on to "feardotcom.com", a website that depicts voyeuristic torture murder.
Detective Mike Reilly teams up with Terry Huston, a Department of Health researcher, to uncover the cause behind the unexplained deaths. They discover that it is evil, vengeful spirits.
[Lion/Jesus/13/Zodiac/Crosshair]
Den of Lions (Hungarian title: Oroszlánbarlang) is a 2003 American-Hungarian movie, directed by James Bruce. It is a violent straight-to-video B-movie, starring relatively famous actors.
Mike Varga (Stephen Dorff) is an FBI agent with Hungarian roots and a gypsy origin. For a new investigation, Varga is sent to Budapest, to be an infiltrator in the Russian mafia and especially, to get close to the brutal mafia boss Darius Paskevic (Bob Hoskins) and get rid of his series of crimes. However, Varga gets into trouble, when he falls in love with Paskevic's daughter (Laura Fraser).
[Shattered Glass/XIII]
Botched is a 2007 film starring Stephen Dorff.
Richie Donovan is a professional thief whose luck has just run out. The only survivor from a heist that goes terribly wrong, Richie is forced to take the blame and is sent to Russia to steal a priceless antique cross locked in a safe on the penthouse floor of a Moscow skyscraper. Things start badly and go rapidly downhill when, during the robbery, Richie and his Russian accomplices are forced to take hostages. Their elevator is hijacked and they are trapped by the religious psychopaths on the unused 13th floor. Dismemberment and romance follows.
The working title for this film was 13.
[OZ]
Felon is a 2008 drama film about a family man who ends up in state prison after he kills an intruder. The film was written and directed by Ric Roman Waugh, and stars Stephen Dorff, Val Kilmer, and Harold Perrineau. The story is based on events that took place in the 1990s at the notorious California State Prison, Corcoran.
Val Kilmer Filmography
Batman Forever is a 1995 superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman. Joel Schumacher directed the film, which stars Val Kilmer as Batman, as well as Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman and Chris O'Donnell. Batman Forever tells the story of Batman (Kilmer) trying to stop Two-Face (Jones) and the Riddler's (Carrey) villainous scheme of draining information from all the brains in Gotham City. Batman gains alliance from psychiatrist Dr. Chase Meridian (Kidman) and adopted sidekick Robin (O'Donnell).
[222/Jericho/Messiah/Phoenix/Capstone]
The plan was simple; the job was not. When a tight crew of four thieves decide to take down a boutique hotel in the dead of winter things go horribly wrong. Unsuspecting hotel guests unwittingly play a part in this tangled web. Unusual lives and hard choices intertwine, twisting the scheme to the point of no return. Loyalty, love, friendship and honor are brought to a boil in this graphic crime thriller.
[Saint/Lucifer/Lightning bolt/Barak/Templar Knight]
The Saint is a 1997 film based on the character of Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris in 1928 for a series of books published as "The Saint." Aside from the book series, which ran until 1983, the character has also featured in a series of Hollywood movies made between 1938 and 1954, a 1940s radio series starring Vincent Price (and others) as Templar, a popular British television series of the 1960s which starred Roger Moore, and a 1980s series starring Ian Ogilvy.
The film stars Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, and Rade Šerbedžija. It was directed by Phillip Noyce and written by Jonathan Hensleigh and Wesley Strick.
In this version, Kilmer's character does not claim to be the Simon Templar created by Charteris. He is, in fact, an orphan who chooses his name, Simon Templar--the first name from Simon Magus, and the last name from his childhood heroes, the Knights Templar. He refers to himself as Templar only during a flashback sequence at the start of the film.
[Ten/X marks the Spot/Moses/Akhetaten]
The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated film, the first traditionally animated film produced and released by DreamWorks. The story follows the life of Moses from his birth, through his childhood as a prince of Egypt, and finally to his ultimate destiny to lead the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt, which is based on the Biblical story of Exodus.The film was directed by Brenda Chapman, Simon Wells and Steve Hickner.
[Mars/Ram/War/Messiah]
In A.D. 2045, the Earth is in ecologic crisis as a consequence of pollution and overpopulation. Meanwhile, automated interplanetary missions have seeded Mars with atmosphere-producing algae as the first stage in terraforming the planet. Twelve years later, when the oxygen quantity produced by the algae is inexplicably reduced, the crew of Mars-1 must learn why, and continue the mission of terraforming the red planet for human colonization.
[Penis/Masculine Sun god/Phallus/Stargate/XXX]
Wonderland is a 2003 film about the Wonderland Murders starring Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth and Lisa Kudrow. It was directed by James Cox. Kilmer plays the role of John Holmes, the pornographic film star, a suspected accomplice in four grisly murders committed in an apartment on Wonderland Avenue in the Laurel Canyon section of Los Angeles.
Frank (Val Kilmer) awakens in the desert with a severe head wound, and no memory of how it--or he--got there. He does, however, experience visions of an assassination attempt on the president, and is convinced they contain clues to the truth. He is also pretty sure that the woman claiming to be his girlfriend, Chloe (Neve Campbel), is not who she says she is. When Frank hears that the president is actually coming to the small New Mexico town, he warns Sheriff Kolb (Sam Shepard) of the impending violence, but Kolb is otherwise occupied with an upcoming election campaign. Struggling to put together the pieces of his past, Frank enters a race against time to convince those around him of the veracity of his claims, before it's too late.
The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia, a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (Παρασκευή) (meaning Friday), and dekatreís (δεκατρείς) (meaning thirteen), attached to phobía (φοβία) (meaning fear). This is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a simple phobia (fear) of the number thirteen, and is also known as friggatriskaidekaphobia. The term triskaidekaphobia was derived in 1911 and first appeared in a mainstream source in 1953.
According to folklorists, there is no written evidence for a "Friday the 13th" superstition before the 19th century.The earliest known documented reference in English occurs in an 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini:
[Rossini] was surrounded to the last by admiring and affectionate friends; and if it be true that, like so many other Italians, he regarded Friday as an unlucky day, and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that on Friday, the 13th of November, he died.
However, some folklore is passed on through oral traditions. In addition, "determining the origins of superstitions is an inexact science, at best. In fact, it's mostly guesswork."Consequently, several theories have been proposed about the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition.
One theory states that it is a modern amalgamation of two older superstitions: that thirteen is an unlucky number and that Friday is an unlucky day.
* In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve signs of the zodiac, twelve hours of the clock, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles of Jesus, twelve gods of Olympus, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness. There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper or a Norse myth, that having thirteen people seated at a table will result in the death of one of the diners.
* Friday has been considered an unlucky day at least since the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales, and many other professions have regarded Friday as an unlucky day to undertake journeys or begin new projects. Black Friday has been associated with stock market crashes and other disasters since the 1800s. It has also been suggested that Friday has been considered an unlucky day because, according to Christian scripture and tradition, Jesus was crucified on a Friday.
On the other hand, another theory by author Charles Panati, one of the leading authorities on the subject of "Origins" maintains that the superstition can be traced back to ancient myth:
The actual origin of the superstition, though, appears also to be a tale in Norse mythology. Friday is named for Frigga, the free-spirited goddess of love and fertility. When Norse and Germanic tribes converted to Christianity, Frigga was banished in shame to a mountaintop and labeled a witch. It was believed that every Friday, the spiteful goddess convened a meeting with eleven other witches, plus the devil - a gathering of thirteen - and plotted ill turns of fate for the coming week. For many centuries in Scandinavia, Friday was known as "Witches' Sabbath."
Another theory about the origin of the superstition traces the event to the arrest of the legendary Knights Templar. According to one expert:
The Knights Templar were a monastic military order founded in Jerusalem in 1118 C.E., whose mission was to protect Christian pilgrims during the Crusades. Over the next two centuries, the Knights Templar became extraordinarily powerful and wealthy. Threatened by that power and eager to acquire their wealth, King Philip secretly ordered the mass arrest of all the Knights Templar in France on Friday, October 13, 1307 - Friday the 13th.
The connection between the superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in the 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code, however, some experts think that it is relatively recent and is a modern-day invention. For example, the superstition is rarely found before the 20th century, when it became extremely common. One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth,in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.
This year a remake of the original Friday The 13th was released on Friday February 13th, 2009.
Friday the 13th is a 2009 American horror film directed by Marcus Nispel, and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. It is a reboot of the Friday the 13th film series,which began in 1980 and whose last film was the 2003 crossover film Freddy vs. Jason. Nispel also helmed the 2003 remake of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), while Shannon and Swift wrote the screenplay for Freddy vs. Jason. The film stars Derek Mears as Jason Voorhees, with Jared Padalecki, Amanda Righetti and Danielle Panabaker portraying the male and female leads. The film follows Clay Miller (Padalecki) as he searches for his missing sister, Whitney (Righetti), who was taken by Jason while she was camping in the woods at Crystal (Skull/Meth) Lake.
[Jason in 2002/X marks the spot of transmutation]
In 2008, Jason Voorhees is captured by the U.S. government. Rowan (Lexa Doig), a government researcher, leads several unsuccessful attempts to execute him. In 2010, she decides to place him in cryogenic suspension to neutralize him. Unfortunately, the government has other plans, hoping to profit from research into Jason's rapid cellular regeneration. Jason escapes while being moved and kills seven soldiers. Rowan manages to lure him into the cryonic chamber and activates it. However, Jason manages to stab her through the door, both wounding her and freezing them both inside the sealed room.
In the year 2455, Earth has become too polluted to support life and humanity has moved to a new planet, Earth Two. Five students on a field trip led by Professor Lowe (Jonathan Potts) enter the facility and find Jason and Rowan. They take them back to their spacecraft and reanimate Rowan. Jason is deemed deceased and left in the morgue. During a call to his financial backer, Professor Lowe explains that he had hoped to exploit Rowan's status as the oldest person revived from cryostatis for profit, as he is in serious debt. The man dismisses this, but notes that Voorhees' body could be worth a substantial amount to a collector.
In 2009 NBC (Peacock/Phoenix) has released two made for TV movies, The Last Templar and XIII. The Last Templar aired a week before the Superbowl on Jan 25-26 while XIII was released a week After on February 8th and 15th, which made The movie XIII in progress during Friday the 13th. The Superbowl also had the Pirate/Templar theme going on as well and now with the number 13 we have another Templar number as seen above.
[Crosshair/Zodiac/GC/13/Ophiuchus/Jesus/Serpent]
XIII (Thirteen) is a Franco-Belgian comics series written and drawn by Belgians Jean Van Hamme and William Vance, revolving around an amnesiac protagonist who seeks to discover his concealed past. With its plot inspired by Robert Ludlum's book The Bourne Identity, XIII was initially serialised in 1984 in Spirou, and was later published by Dargaud. In 2003, the storyline of the first five volumes was adapted into a video game, also titled XIII, that was released on several platforms. A XIII TV miniseries starring Val Kilmer and Stephen Dorff was released in 2008.
The XX was most likely formed by Number I with help from various other people as a patriotic militia. Sometime after its creation, they began to recruit other like-minded and politically powerful individuals and with the help of William Standwell, took control of SPADs (Special Assault Destroying Section) turning them into mercenaries under the employ of the Mongoose. After several years of careful planning, they decided to strike against the Government.
The first female U.S. President, Sally Sheridan, is shot dead by a sniper during her Veterans Day speech. Her assassin narrowly escapes the scene with his life.
[Crosshair/Zodiac again on 3rd Eye/Pineal gland]
Three months later, an elderly couple discover the body of a wounded man in a tree, still in his parachute. The young man (Dorff) cannot remember the slightest thing about his own identity. The only clue is a tattoo on his chest, "XIII".
[HH/88/I Light/Lucifer]
Meanwhile, in the White House, government intelligence is still conducting the search for the President's killer. With the elections just weeks away, a confirmed suspect could swing the vote for the administration. Hours after XIII's location is picked up by covert intelligence, elite special ops forces are swarming the couple's house in Cape Fear. Running on adrenaline and instinct, XIII tactically takes out the soldiers one by one. On the run, clinging to one desperate clue after another, XIII begins to piece back his life, fragments of his memory returning.
Finally captured, he learns that he has been given a stolen identity and placed undercover to flush out a group of conspirators threatening to overthrow the government. Ensconced within the highest echelons of power the conspirators run their own security agency alongside the Government's. Both are out to find him. The only way for XIII to get his own life back is to play bait which is a dangerous game since XIII doesn't know who he really is.
* Walter Sheridan - The leader of The XX ("Number I").
* Calvin Wax - The Secretary of Defense ("Number II")
* General William Standwell - Chief of Staff ("Number III")
* Philip Gillepsie - Secretary of State of the Interior ("Number IV")
* Senator Clayton Willard - Senator ("Number V")
* Judge Irving Allenby - Judge in the Sheridan Affair ("Number VI")
* Captain Franklin Edelbright - Admiral of the USS Patriot ("Number VII")
* Dean Harrison - Congressman ("Number VIII")
* Jasper Winslow - Chief executive officer in Winslow Bank ("Number IX")
* Orville Midsummer - Proprietor of unamed Press Groups ("Number X")
* Colonel Seymour MacCall - Colonel in SPADs ("Number XI")
* Lloyd Jennings - Advisor to the White House ("Number XII")
* Steve Rowland - Captain in SPADs ("Number XIII")
* Harriet Traymore - Chief executive officer in the Federal Steel Corporation ("Number XIV")
* Jack Dickinson - Chief executive officer in the American Legion ("Number XV")
* Colonel Norman Ryder - Colonel in the United States National Guard ("Number XVI")
* Kim Rowland - Wife of Steve Rowland ("Number XVII")
* Edwin Rauschenburg - Chief executive officer of CBN ("Number XVIII")
* Elly Shepherd - Director General in the United States Department of Defense ("Number XIX")
* Doctor Edward W Johansson - Director of Plain Rock Asylum ("Number XX")
The Mongoose
An infamous hitman hired by The XX to carry out assassinations and other evil deeds. The Mongoose is a cruel and cold-blooded murderer who carries out his orders with eagerness and glee. He commands an army of hitmen to do some of his dirty work.
Stephen Dorf Filmography
The (Star) Gate is a 1987 horror movie starring Stephen Dorff and directed by Tibor Takács.
The removal of an old tree in Glen (Stephen Dorff)'s backyard reveals a large and mysterious hole. Glen and his sister, Al, are left to look after themselves for three days when their parents go away. This is when strange things begin to happen, all of them centered around the "hole".
Blade is a 1998 vampire action film starring Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff, loosely based on the published stories of the fictional Marvel Comics character Blade. It was directed by Stephen Norrington and written by David S. Goyer. Snipes plays the titular character, a half-man, half-vampire superhero vampire hunter who becomes the protector of humans against the vampires.
[Stargate]
Entropy is a movie directed by Phil Joanou, starring Stephen Dorff and featuring the Irish rock band U2. The film is largely autobiographical, covering his early film career, his relationships (including a very short-lived marriage) and his pet cat.
[Steal/Steel/Pirate/Templar]
Steal (aka Riders) is a 2002 action adventure film starring Stephen Dorff, Natasha Henstridge, Bruce Payne and Steven Berkoff. It was directed by Gérard Pirès and written by Mark Ezra and Gérard Pirès.
Slim, Frank, Otis and Alex are a group of youthful bank robbers who commit their crimes in innovative ways involving extreme sports such as Skateboarding. The group evade capture from the Police, lead by Lieutenant Macgruder, and plan even more daring robberies. But an anonymous individual seems to know who they all are and threatens to inform the Police unless they undertake a robbery for him. Subsequently, the Mafia represented by underworld enforcer Surtayne instruct the group to work for them otherwise they will be killed. The group soon turn the tables on the anonymous individual (who is revealed to be Lieutenant Macgruder) and the Mafia and escape with all of the money from their last heist.
[WWW]
FeardotCom is a 2002 horror film directed by William Malone.
Four people died mysteriously in New York City and the only connection is the fact that all of them died within 48 hours of logging on to "feardotcom.com", a website that depicts voyeuristic torture murder.
Detective Mike Reilly teams up with Terry Huston, a Department of Health researcher, to uncover the cause behind the unexplained deaths. They discover that it is evil, vengeful spirits.
[Lion/Jesus/13/Zodiac/Crosshair]
Den of Lions (Hungarian title: Oroszlánbarlang) is a 2003 American-Hungarian movie, directed by James Bruce. It is a violent straight-to-video B-movie, starring relatively famous actors.
Mike Varga (Stephen Dorff) is an FBI agent with Hungarian roots and a gypsy origin. For a new investigation, Varga is sent to Budapest, to be an infiltrator in the Russian mafia and especially, to get close to the brutal mafia boss Darius Paskevic (Bob Hoskins) and get rid of his series of crimes. However, Varga gets into trouble, when he falls in love with Paskevic's daughter (Laura Fraser).
[Shattered Glass/XIII]
Botched is a 2007 film starring Stephen Dorff.
Richie Donovan is a professional thief whose luck has just run out. The only survivor from a heist that goes terribly wrong, Richie is forced to take the blame and is sent to Russia to steal a priceless antique cross locked in a safe on the penthouse floor of a Moscow skyscraper. Things start badly and go rapidly downhill when, during the robbery, Richie and his Russian accomplices are forced to take hostages. Their elevator is hijacked and they are trapped by the religious psychopaths on the unused 13th floor. Dismemberment and romance follows.
The working title for this film was 13.
[OZ]
Felon is a 2008 drama film about a family man who ends up in state prison after he kills an intruder. The film was written and directed by Ric Roman Waugh, and stars Stephen Dorff, Val Kilmer, and Harold Perrineau. The story is based on events that took place in the 1990s at the notorious California State Prison, Corcoran.
Val Kilmer Filmography
Batman Forever is a 1995 superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman. Joel Schumacher directed the film, which stars Val Kilmer as Batman, as well as Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman and Chris O'Donnell. Batman Forever tells the story of Batman (Kilmer) trying to stop Two-Face (Jones) and the Riddler's (Carrey) villainous scheme of draining information from all the brains in Gotham City. Batman gains alliance from psychiatrist Dr. Chase Meridian (Kidman) and adopted sidekick Robin (O'Donnell).
[222/Jericho/Messiah/Phoenix/Capstone]
The plan was simple; the job was not. When a tight crew of four thieves decide to take down a boutique hotel in the dead of winter things go horribly wrong. Unsuspecting hotel guests unwittingly play a part in this tangled web. Unusual lives and hard choices intertwine, twisting the scheme to the point of no return. Loyalty, love, friendship and honor are brought to a boil in this graphic crime thriller.
[Saint/Lucifer/Lightning bolt/Barak/Templar Knight]
The Saint is a 1997 film based on the character of Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris in 1928 for a series of books published as "The Saint." Aside from the book series, which ran until 1983, the character has also featured in a series of Hollywood movies made between 1938 and 1954, a 1940s radio series starring Vincent Price (and others) as Templar, a popular British television series of the 1960s which starred Roger Moore, and a 1980s series starring Ian Ogilvy.
The film stars Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, and Rade Šerbedžija. It was directed by Phillip Noyce and written by Jonathan Hensleigh and Wesley Strick.
In this version, Kilmer's character does not claim to be the Simon Templar created by Charteris. He is, in fact, an orphan who chooses his name, Simon Templar--the first name from Simon Magus, and the last name from his childhood heroes, the Knights Templar. He refers to himself as Templar only during a flashback sequence at the start of the film.
[Ten/X marks the Spot/Moses/Akhetaten]
The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated film, the first traditionally animated film produced and released by DreamWorks. The story follows the life of Moses from his birth, through his childhood as a prince of Egypt, and finally to his ultimate destiny to lead the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt, which is based on the Biblical story of Exodus.The film was directed by Brenda Chapman, Simon Wells and Steve Hickner.
[Mars/Ram/War/Messiah]
In A.D. 2045, the Earth is in ecologic crisis as a consequence of pollution and overpopulation. Meanwhile, automated interplanetary missions have seeded Mars with atmosphere-producing algae as the first stage in terraforming the planet. Twelve years later, when the oxygen quantity produced by the algae is inexplicably reduced, the crew of Mars-1 must learn why, and continue the mission of terraforming the red planet for human colonization.
[Penis/Masculine Sun god/Phallus/Stargate/XXX]
Wonderland is a 2003 film about the Wonderland Murders starring Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth and Lisa Kudrow. It was directed by James Cox. Kilmer plays the role of John Holmes, the pornographic film star, a suspected accomplice in four grisly murders committed in an apartment on Wonderland Avenue in the Laurel Canyon section of Los Angeles.
Frank (Val Kilmer) awakens in the desert with a severe head wound, and no memory of how it--or he--got there. He does, however, experience visions of an assassination attempt on the president, and is convinced they contain clues to the truth. He is also pretty sure that the woman claiming to be his girlfriend, Chloe (Neve Campbel), is not who she says she is. When Frank hears that the president is actually coming to the small New Mexico town, he warns Sheriff Kolb (Sam Shepard) of the impending violence, but Kolb is otherwise occupied with an upcoming election campaign. Struggling to put together the pieces of his past, Frank enters a race against time to convince those around him of the veracity of his claims, before it's too late.
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